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Part of the Analytic Tradition, But Maybe Not Philosophers

“Are there people who are unambiguously part of the analytic movement, but [about whom] it is an interesting question whether they are an analytic…

February 12, 2025
Competent Referees for Controversial Ideas

“I think Jeff McMahan is in for the surprise of his life when the submissions to his new journal start coming in.”

February 11, 2025
Free & Equal Launches Essay Prize

The editors of Free & Equal: A Journal of Ethics and Public Affairs, the open-access journal created last year by the former editorial team of…

February 11, 2025
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February 11, 2025
Bill Introduced in Kansas Legislature Would Effectively End Tenure (updated)

A bill introduced into the Kansas State House of Representatives last week would, if made law, make it impossible for state institutions of higher…

February 10, 2025
While Tables Burn: On the (Non) Existence of Trans People and the Failure of Philosophy (guest post)

“There are indeed consequences when we punch down or pretend that what is, in fact, a hostile attack, is merely ‘inquiry for inquiry’s sake.’…

February 10, 2025
$3 Million Global Philosophy of Religion Project

The “Global Philosophy of Religion Project: Fundamental Spiritual Reality, Human Purpose, and Living Well”, based at the Birmingham Centre for the Philosophy of Religion at…

February 10, 2025
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes…

February 10, 2025
Flipping the Conference: How Did It Go?

In a previous post, I shared the plans for a conference structured in a somewhat unusual way, the “Coffee Break Conference of Aesthetics.” The…

February 7, 2025
The Future of the Department of Education

Elon Musk—a businessman apparently being allowed by President Trump to tread upon whatever and whomever he pleases in his capacity as head budget-slasher-of-questionable-Constitutionality of…

February 6, 2025
Marmodoro from Durham to Saint Louis University

Anna Marmadoro, previously Professor of Philosophy and Chair of Metaphysics at Durham University, recently moved to Saint Louis University, where she is the Leonard…

February 6, 2025
Krister Segerberg (1936-2025)

Krister Segerberg, professor emeritus of philosophy at Uppsala University, has died.

February 6, 2025
Professors, How Are You Using AI in Your Day to Day Work?

More outside of academia than within it, one hears things like “in a few years saying ‘I don’t use AI’ will sound as weird…

February 5, 2025
Allen Carlson (1943-2025)

Allen Arvid Carlson, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Alberta, has died.

February 5, 2025
California State University System to Become “AI-Powered”

The Chancellor of the California State University (CSU) system has announced that its 23 universities will become “AI-powered.”

February 4, 2025
This Year, the Central APA Comes to You (guest post)

The American Philosophical Association (APA) is beginning an experiment in which one of its three annual divisional meetings is held online. This year, it’s…

February 4, 2025
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February 4, 2025
Cuts to Philosophy Are Part of Massive Layoffs at St. Norbert College

“The problem is, the administration keeps coming back for more, and more, and more, and it never stops.”

February 3, 2025
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes…

February 3, 2025
New Interactive Visualization of Philosophy

Designer Deniz Cem Önduygu has built a new interactive visualization of philosophy.

January 31, 2025

Heap of Links

“Submission” is a humorous clicker-style game about starting a career in academic philosophy (or not) — created by Nat Hansen
“The best investment in education is to become the most human human—a challenging, fulfilling, exciting pursuit that connects us across generations” — an interview with Christa Acampora, philosopher and dean of Arts & Sciences at UVA
“What would happen if we tried to live without the mythology of agency at all?” — It's worth pondering, since "agency is just an internal command hallucination," says Alexander Douglas
“Reading List” is a free Mac app for keeping track of papers to read — philosophy PhD student Hayden Kajercline created this productivity tool for researchers, with help from Claude
How should we react to scary predictions about AI? “First: by asking questions” — "If you believe predictions uncritically, it amounts to obeying in advance," says Carissa Véliz
“I feel unbelievably lucky that I was able to make philosophy my profession” — Karen Ng reflects on her path into philosophy, at #first-genphilosophers
The ordinary concept of knowledge “doesn’t work at all the way philosophers said it does” — a round-up of studies shows how weird the philosophers' version of the concept is
1000 or so psychiatrists were asked to diagnose standardized clinical case vignettes. “Two doctors agreed on the diagnosis only 55% of the time” — What does this tell us about psychiatry? Or about other fields in which experts disagree?
Where Aristotle taught Alexander — "this newest dig may be the most revealing yet, offering insight into the specifics of Alexander the Great’s education"
Over 4000 of the Justice Department’s lawyers have left their jobs since Trump’s second term began — The New Yorker on the moral dilemma facing some government employees: resign and avoid complicity, or stay and resist where one can?
Underappreciated philosophy published between 1970-2019 — some old posts to which you can still add works that should be better appreciated
The AI threat to independent student writing is not necessarily a threat to student learning — what's needed, says Joe Cruz, are courses "in which ideas are expressed in real time and analytical thought unfolds as a debate or an oral defense or a group discussion"—and small enough classes to make that work
Would you take a pill that allows you, with no ill health effects, to permanently forgo sleep? — Rebecca Lowe thinks you have no good reason not to, though she neglects to consider that sometimes it's the world that needs a break from you
Fifty essays in the philosophy of paleontology — by Max Dresow at the Extinct blog
“Asking whether [an AI] model ‘has a world model’ leaves much unresolved. Our findings point toward mechanistically studying its world modeling; uncovering the structures it learned [and] the world modeling capacities that recruit these” — further research on the internal representations of AIs
Sixty Years of Philosophy in America — Ernest Sosa's Dewey Lecture from the 2024 APA Eastern Division Meeting
“You’re responsible for other people’s learning of this material, so you better know it at a higher level yourself” — for 20 years, the Socrates Project at the University of Toronto has hired senior philosophy undergrads to run weekly tutorials for introductory students
“Suddenly, my problems stop being problems in the world. They become problems in my head. The problem is no longer: ‘my job is demoralizing, but I can’t leave it’… It’s: ‘I have a chemical imbalance that prevents me from enjoying life'” — Justin Garson on “the pathologizing tendency”
A political theorist and a comedian discuss the American presidency — "The Oath and the Office" is the podcast of Corey Brettschneider & John Fugelsang
An “evidence revolution” has taken place in medicine and other fields over the past 50 years — but, as Benjamin Santos Genta asks, there's still the question: "what counts as good scientific evidence?"

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Noah Gordon on Those OpenAI Math Results
That's true, but the comments there were not submitted by visitors to the site. They were collected by the moderators from provenances which they did not specify (the…
Noah Gordon on Those OpenAI Math Results
The difference could certainly be overstated, but the highest voted comment thread (not highest voted post overall) here accuses OpenAI of "Gish Galloping" and implies that most of…
David Wallace on Those OpenAI Math Results
The most straightforward conjunction would be to decompose the strip 1/2<Re z<1 into finitely many disjoint, thinner strips, whose union is the entire strip. Then Pn is the…
David Wallace on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
I've also seen it said (though I haven't confirmed) that OpenAI tried around 8,000 problems to get their 722 results. If so, that increases the cost by a…
David Wallace on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
And we would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for you meddling blog commentators.
David Wallace on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
If you like, we could return to academic freedom, sex and gender, treatment of conservatives in academia, or the Gaza war. Personally, I'm finding the change of pace…
David Wallace on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
In brief, since we're reaching diminishing returns here: 1) You're still relying on the existence of a clean separation of a paper's argument from its writing, which I…
Meme on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
Well, I just meant that philosophers are nerds, but tomayto/tomahto.
Matt Brown on Your One Piece of Philosophy Grad School Advice
Beware of cults of personality. It could be a faculty member in your program, or it could be a figure in your field you meet at a conference.…
Hey Nonny Mouse on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
I don't think that we provide those answers now. I doubt machines will be more successful on that front.
Beau Madison Mount on Those OpenAI Math Results
Well, it provided a proof of something important and hitherto thought to be out of reach that's related to the Riemann hypothesis in an obvious way. I'm not…
Ben M-Y on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
While I feel deep attachment to the traditional way of doing philosophy, an exclusive commitment to it is easy to preserve as long as the process in question…
Meme on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
“It seems at the least a sort of precautionary approach to the tech is warranted rather than casual uncritical embrace of it.” If the implication is that David…
Dan Hooley on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
If spending lots of money on compute actually makes progress in solving philosophical problems, I can imagine that philanthropists would want to fund research, especially in a world…
Beau Madison Mount on Those OpenAI Math Results
I don't have a good answer about the transition point. For what it's worth, I should have said 'the aesthetic' rather than art, and I intend both aesthetic…

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